relaying service. Never ever again get bogged down by tie-in to email provider and never lose password recovery since the membership is for lifetime. Membership available to private individuals only. IKI has never needed to collect yearly fees as all services have been provided using just the revenue of more and more people joining and paying the 30€ membership fee.

Member http://juho.iki.fi since 1996⁠ – Retro style, hand written php longevity counter, a perl script to convert MediaWiki and TiddlyWiki syntax and html from the last millenium. Moving along.

Also a proud member of http://kapsi.fi Internet User Association. Membership (40€ / annum) available only to private individuals and features:

Kapsi.fi Internet Users Association – All the copyleft candy you can expect from an Internet Users’ Association. Membership available only to private individuals

Diaspora* is a privacy, consumer protection and access control focused freesome since 2010. It has wonderful people posting wonderful content. It pioneered the use of “aspects” for finely granulating who gets to see what (you may know these as “circles” from Google+). Pictures uploaded to diaspora* cannot be linked to or seen by others than those aspects that you have specified.

GNU social is an easy to grasp and learn no-nonsense contender in the #freesome scene. Pay attention to the URLs you see and you will see in plain text how the software designers. Unintrusive and versatile.

https://hub.consumium.org/ running since March 2016. My personal channel is juboxi@hub.consumium.org. Hubzilla utilises the concept of “channels”. You can manage an arbitrary amount of channels from a single login using your email address as your identifier. Each channel has a shorthand address addressname@hub.example.com that other participants of the network can subscribe to. In Hubzilla the login is to the network, not the hub which means that you can bilocate channels between multiple hubs for added data persistence and also fully emigrate a channel to another hub at will.